" ... Now I give you something that few think about: What do you think the Internet is all about, historically? Citizens of all the countries on Earth can talk to one another without electronic borders. The young people of those nations can all see each other, talk to each other, and express opinions. No matter what the country does to suppress it, they're doing it anyway. They are putting together a network of consciousness, of oneness, a multicultural consciousness. It's here to stay. It's part of the new energy. The young people know it and are leading the way.... "

" ... I gave you a prophecy more than 10 years ago. I told you there would come a day when everyone could talk to everyone and, therefore, there could be no conspiracy. For conspiracy depends on separation and secrecy - something hiding in the dark that only a few know about. Seen the news lately? What is happening? Could it be that there is a new paradigm happening that seems to go against history?... "Read More …. "The End of History"- Nov 20, 2010 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll)

Have you seen innovation and invention in the past decade that required thinking out of the box of an old reality? Indeed, you have. I can't tell you what's coming, because you haven't thought of it yet! But the potentials of it are looming large. Let me give you an example, Let us say that 20 years ago, you predicted that there would be something called the Internet on a device you don't really have yet using technology that you can't imagine. You will have full libraries, buildings filled with books, in your hand - a worldwide encyclopedia of everything knowable, with the ability to look it up instantly! Not only that, but that look-up service isn't going to cost a penny! You can call friends and see them on a video screen, and it won't cost a penny! No matter how long you use this service and to what depth you use it, the service itself will be free.

Now, anyone listening to you back then would perhaps have said, "Even if we can believe the technological part, which we think is impossible, everything costs something. There has to be a charge for it! Otherwise, how would they stay in business?" The answer is this: With new invention comes new paradigms of business. You don't know what you don't know, so don't decide in advance what you think is coming based on an old energy world. ..."

Thursday, October 16, 2014

Damning report says goverment wastes up to €5bn on IT failures

The Dutch
government is wasting between €1bn and €5bn a year on failing IT projects, says
a parliamentary commission set up to look at a number of headline cases.

This
‘cautious estimate’ is an ‘unacceptably high amount’, the commission said in
its report which was published on Wednesday.

‘The
government often fails to keep control of its IT projects in terms of cost,
timing and the end result,’ the commission said.

Unknown
spending

Coming up
with an exact figure of how much the government wastes on IT is impossible
because ‘no one knows how much it spends’. But based on expert opinion the
figure can be put at between €1bn and €5bn a year.

Parliament
is also failing to properly monitor IT projects because of a lack of interest
and expertise and projects are being undertaken with unrealistic expectations.

Among the
34 recommendations for improvement, the commission says a special committee
should be set up to supervise projects with a budget of over €5m. The green
light for such projects should only be given once the technical, management and
organisation risks have been assessed.

What is
ICT?

Parliament
chairwoman Anouchka van Miltenburg made a major gaffe while accepting the
report by saying she had had to ‘google ICT’ to find out what it meant.

The
Netherlands uses ICT to cover information and communications technology, rather
than IT like most of the world.

‘This is a
real low point,’ IT entrepreneur Rene Veldwijk who was watching the proceedings
told the Telegraf. ‘People are being cute about their ignorance.’

Projects

The
commission was set up to look at six government IT projects which ran into
serious trouble, and held its first interviews at the end of April. The NRC
sums them up as follows:

• mGBA:
modernising the local government registration system (births, marriages, deaths
and address).

•
Ov-chipkaart: smart card for public transport which was expensive and did not
have enough loading stations.

• C2000: a
new communication system for the emergency services which cost twice the budget
and still has operating problems.

• EPD: a
centralised system for storing patients’ medical records which floundered in
the upper house of parliament because of concerns about privacy.

• Werk.nl:
jobs website run by the UWV benefit centres which has been beset by computer
failure

• A73
tunnels: a security system for tunnels on the A73 highway which did not work,
leading to months of tunnel closures.

During the
hearings information science professor Hans Mulder told the committee just 7%
of the projects with a budget starting at €7.5m can be said to be successful.
In total, 70% of projects fail.

Of those
which flop, 36% fail so seriously the new system is never used and around half
are of doubtful value because they turn out to be too expensive, take too long
or produce unexpected results, Mulder said.

INTERNET / CYBERSPACE

"... Now I give you something that few think about: What do you think the Internet is all about, historically? Citizens of all the countries on Earth can talk to one another without electronic borders. The young people of those nations can all see each other, talk to each other, and express opinions. No matter what the country does to suppress it, they're doing it anyway. They are putting together a network of consciousness, of oneness, a multicultural consciousness. It's here to stay. It's part of the new energy. The young people know it and are leading the way.... "

"... I gave you a prophecy more than 10 years ago. I told you there would come a day when "everyone could talk to everyone and, therefore, there could be no conspiracy." For conspiracy depends on separation and secrecy - something hiding in the dark that only a few know about. Seen the news lately? What is happening? Could it be that there is a new paradigm happening that seems to go against history? ..."Read More …. "The End of History"- Nov 20, 2010 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll)